Big Breasts & Wide Hips

About “Big Breasts & Wide Hips”

The novel follows the life of Mother, born in 1900, who is married at seventeen into the Shangguan family and bears nine children, only one of whom is a boy, the narrator. The story spans from the end of the Qing dynasty through the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years, focusing on Mother's survival and the lives of her eight strong female siblings.